Validity is both a critical foundation for, and widely contested concept in the field of program
evaluation. Given the wide and divergent treatment of the term, this article sought to …

This paper addresses the theoretical and practical question of how to specify criteria used in
educational evaluations. People and groups involved in and affected by an educational …

Background Evaluative criteria represent values about characteristics that define a
successful evaluand. Criteria direct evaluators' lines of inquiry, including how aims are …

Evaluative criteria describe the attributes that define a high‐quality intervention and
represent values about which intervention characteristics or results are desirable. There are …

Criteria identify and define the aspects on which what we evaluate is judged and play a
central role in evaluation practice. While work on the use of AI in evaluation is burgeoning, at …

Evaluation that supports social, ecological, and governance systems change and
transformation raises ethical questions about what and whose worldviews do and should …

Evaluation students need a sense of how the expertise they bring and the knowledge and
skills they are learning relate to the tasks of evaluation and to their own ongoing …

This study challenges persistent misrepresentations of evaluation as a value-neutral inquiry
process by presenting an empirical study that deepens understanding of evaluators' values …

Evaluative conclusions are grounded in implicit and explicit criteria that describe a
successful or high-quality intervention. Most often, evaluative criteria are drawn from …

Amid calls for evaluations to advance equity, there are ongoing debates, varied guidance,
and limited empirical research on how evaluators practically attend to equity in their work …